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Mar 29 2009 Herman Scholtz of Beeld newspaper reports that judge Carl Rabie of the Pretoria High Court has issued an urgent order that the South African government's land-affairs commissioner and the Minister of Finance must immediately pay Limpopo's farmers whose land was confiscated, what they are owed – plus interest.

Despite the failure of this so-called ‘land-reform programme’ the ANC-regime still carries on relentlessly – and causing a massive food-shortage problem in South Africa. See

For instance, the Sunday Times discovered during a recent tour around the country’s ‘redistributed’ former commercial farms, that twenty crop- and dairy farms in the Eastern /cape, bought for R11,5-million, had been turned into a squatter camp near Kokstad.

Also, that 10,000 ‘previously disadvantaged’ people who had been given 8,000 hectares of prime fruit- and macadamia farms in Limpopo now are crippled by a whopping R5-million debt…

… That a former multimillion-rand tea estate in Magoebaskloof in Limpopo has become an overgrown forest; and that more than five tons of a macadamia nut crop on a ‘redistributed’ Limpopo farm had become so poorly managed (macadamia nuts need a lot of hands-on maintenance) that the crop was dumped in the Levubu river.. The list goes on and on. see

This week, the Afrikaner commercial farmers who owned some of the best developed, high-production Limpopo fruit-and vegetable farms in the country, with names such as Turflaagte, De Kuil, Middelkopje and Palmietgat in the Warmbaths and Waterberg district, were only given a few months to vacate their beloved family homesteads to make way for the Ba-kgatla Ba Mocha Communal Property Association members. They hadlate last year, suddenly demanded all these very high-production, fertile farms in a formal land-claim.

This land had been farmed by Boer-farmers since the days of the independent Transvaal Boer Republic before 1902. (ZAR). The farmers said the community ‘s forebears had moved into the region long after the Boer farmers had, providing extensive proof such as old Boer-Voortrekker gravesites – but all their documentation and proof fell on deaf ears.

The only thing they were still allowed to ‘negotiate,’ was the price: and even there, they were being cheated: they had been promised very specific amounts of compensation for their land in May 2007. However the agreed-to payments have not even been budgeted for in the government’s 2009 budget… This week these farmers lodged a combined law-suit, asking the Pretoria High Court for an urgent court order to force the government to pay them as had been formally agreed. The court complied, ordering the goverment to pay the farmers at once, and with interest.

The community which was given the confiscated farms for free, the "Ba-kgatla Ba Mocha Communal Property Association", was handed management of these fertile farms on February 20 2009 in one of the speediest legal land-thefts yet on record in South Africa.

Yet the government hadn't even bothered to budget in the National budget to pay these farmers the agreed-to prices for their lost land -- despite the fact that the farmers had agreed to even lower prices if only they'd get paid…

According to documents before the court, the and-claims commissioner Miyelani Nkatingi had the farmers sign their 'sales-agreements' for their valuable, beloved and very fertile family farms in October 2008. However it was also noted that these sales contracts were never endorsed by the highest-level government officials, the court heard.

A week later, the farmers discovered why this ploy was used: they were forced to 'renegotiate the sales contracts again’ -- when the government forced down the land price by 50% - to a total of $4-million for all these farms in the Warmbaths and Waterberg regions, which are some of the highest fresh-fruit and produce-producing farms in South Africa. The annual potential income of these farms was $12-m a year when they were ‘sold’ to the State.

According to the second sales agreement – which was signed by the land-claims commissioner, sixty percent of the total sales sum would be paid immediately and the rest within ten days of the land-transfer to the government. They are still sitting on their hands – not a cent has been paid, the court heard.

Yet while all the farms were alread formally registered to the Ba-kgatla Ba Mocha Communal Property Association on 20 February this year, the Afrikaner farmers still haven't received the agreed-to sums.

The court heard that 'none of the written and verbal agreements by the government have been honoured.'

Land-claims chief commissioner Andrew Mphela told the farmers on 9 March 2009 that he 'was so sorry, but that the money just wasn't there.'

He then told the farmers to 'wait until the end of March, but couldn't guarantee even then that they would get the payments...' according to documents before the court.

Rabe agreed with the farmers that the matter was urgent for them and their families, because they had all undertaken new commitments based on the promises made by the ANC-government -- amongst others they had to buy new homes when they forced to move so suddenly from their family farms.

The State did not oppose the application and yet another formal undertaking was given in the documents to the court that 'they would pay what was owed, with interest...'

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October 20 2017

Please note that my site with the PAST SEVEN YEARS' information on atrocities against white South Africas, was hacked away. It used to be on https://www.censorbugbear.org. I apologize that this information is no longer available online. Anyone needing information about specific cases please email me at a.j.stuijt@knid.nl

For a name-list of murdered white farmers, - smallholders and their family and workers in South Africa, up to April 2011, view:

and for reports of human-rights violations against South African minorities, including whites, after 2011 see: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '